Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:24 -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > > I was quite interested when I saw the announcement of conary, which solves > > this problem by allowing local changes tracked as patches. > > It occurs to me that we can get most of the benefit if rpm is modified > > to do two things. > > 1) Don't create needless .rpmsave/.rpmnew if there is no change > This is a bug. When I first started using rpm it followed its > documented behaviour... which is to not create these files. Recently > (and by recently I mean sometime in the RHL era :-) some packages have > begun to create rpmsave/rpmnew where the md5sum of the config files are > the same between packages. It was mentioned that this might reflect ownership/mode changes. I would vote for just changing those (and printing a warning) in that case, if the file contents is the same. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
